Automated cortical thickness measurements from MRI can accurately separate Alzheimer's patients from normal elderly controls

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-30

  Lerch, Jason P ^a   Pruessner, Jens ^a,b   Zijdenbos, Alex P ^a   Collins, D Louis ^a   Teipel, Stefan J ^b   Hampel, Harald ^b   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cortical thickness; Diagnosis; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 36148973896     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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